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The Old Exe Bridge is a ruined medieval arch bridge in Exeter in south-western England. Construction of the bridge began in 1190, and was completed by 1214. The bridge is the oldest surviving bridge of its size in England and the oldest bridge in Britain with a chapel still on it.
The Devon and Exeter Institution (Cathedral Close) The Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way; Notaries House (Cathedral Close) No. 15-15a Cathedral Close; No. 67 South Street; Wynard's Hospital (Magdalan Street) Dean Clarke House (Former RD&E Hospital) (Southernhay) No. 1-10 Southernhay West; No. 18-24 Southernhay West
In 1778 a new bridge across the Exe was opened to replace the old medieval bridge. Built at a cost of £30,000, it had three arches and was built of stone. [52] Frontispiece to Shapter's "History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832" In 1832, cholera, which had been erupting all across Europe, reached Exeter.
The Old Exe Bridge is a ruined medieval bridge in Exeter, England. Built from around 1190 and completed by 1214, it is the oldest surviving bridge of its size in England and the oldest bridge in Britain with a chapel on it. The project was the idea of influential local merchants Nicholas and Walter Gervase, father and son.
On the site of the current Newcastle Swing Bridge, the medieval bridge was swept away in the Great Flood of Newcastle in 1771. Pulteney Bridge: Bath, Somerset: River Avon, Bristol: Built 1769-1774 Old Exe Bridge: Exeter, Devon
The House That Moved is a historic building in Exeter, originally built in the late Middle Ages and relocated in 1961 when the entire street it was on was demolished to make way for a new bypass road linked to the replacement of the city's bridge over the River Exe.
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The name Isca Dumnoniorum is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe.More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh pysg, pl. "fish"), [2] although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whisky). [3]